title: Ask the doctor. In your May article on blood sugar control, you kept talking about hemoglobin A1c. I measure my blood sugar all the time, but my meter doesn't have a setting for a percentage reading. Is there a simple connection between blood sugar and hemoglobin A1c?
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Lee
mesh_terms: D001786:Blood Glucose / Q000378:metabolism*; D015190:Blood Glucose Self-Monitoring; D003920:Diabetes Mellitus / Q000097:blood*; D006442:Glycated Hemoglobin / Q000378:metabolism*; D006801:Humans
chemical_list: D001786:Blood Glucose; D006442:Glycated Hemoglobin; C517652:hemoglobin A1c protein, human